Date   : Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:22:47 +0100
From   : Ian Miller <imiller@...>
Subject: Re: Emulators For Linux?

On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 11:41:06AM +0100, Crispin Boylan screived:
>    Hi
> Has anyone got a usuable Beeb emulator for Linux?  The two that I have 
> tried (and it seems these are the only reasonably complete ones) are 
> Xbeeb and Beebem, Xbeeb runs fine but only works in 8bit deep displays 
> and seems very out of date.  Beebem looks better but I cannot compile it 
> on my Mandrake 7.0 system, i get errors on the 'make' part of the install.
> 
> Has anyone got Beebem working?

What kind of errors are you getting? I don't know anything about Beebem,
but in my opinion Mandrake 7.0 is useless, and I'm switching to another
Linux distribution as soon as possible! 

e.g. if you only have a "limited" disk space for Linux (2Gb in my case,
which is more than adequate!), Mandrake 7.0 will often, depending on what
installation you choose, miss out installing certain *essential* UNIX
packages, such as 'make' etc. Do you have 'make' properly installed? 

I think Mandrake 7.0 is generally acknowledged as being worse than 
previous versions of Mandrake (at least as far as the installation
process goes).

cheers,
ian


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